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Can you find your vintage instrument in our online museum?
Can you find your vintage instrument in our online museum? Our Gallery & Online Museum will give you a sense of the piano’s place in society during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Through our extensive ephemera collection, photos and historical texts, we are able to share nearly 200 years of history that has been…
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Did my piano originally come with a bench or a stool?
Today we’re discussing one of our frequently asked questions: how do I know whether my antique piano or organ originally came with a stool or a bench?
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Stephen Hough playing Chopin Nocturne in F sharp major
Stephen Hough – pianist, composer, author and artist plays the Nocturne in F sharp major, op. 15, No. 2 by Frédéric Chopin, recorded by Gramophone at the Bristol Hotel in Vienna.
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Pianolas: what they are and how they differ to the ‘reproducing piano’
All you need to know about the pianola, which was hugely popular in the early 20th century By BBC Music Magazine Published: September 2, 2022 at 9:00 am What is a pianola? ‘Pianola’ was the registered trade-name for the ‘player pianos’ made by the New York-based Aeolian Company. It became, albeit incorrectly, the generic term…
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Two cellos
To get a little insight of what Ilja Grawert Violin Maker has been working on in his North Queensland workshop in the last few months, visit the current projects page and see some of the steps in the building of two studio cellos, a 7/8 & 4/4 size and a 15 ½” viola. They will…
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Carl Rönisch
Johann Carl Gottlieb Rönisch was born on November 28th, 1814 into a poor family in Goldberg Silesia. At the age of 10, he began work as an apprentice in a machine shop and learned the trades of mechanic, joiner and turner. Between the age of 16 and 20 he learnt how to build pianos with the well-known…
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Who brought the first piano into Australia?
So, who brought the first piano into Australia? The first Pianoforte to land in Australia came over with George Bouchier Worgan, born May 1757 and died March 1838. George was an English naval surgeon who accompanied the First Fleet to Australia on HMS “Sirius”. The Broadwood Piano Archives of England, record that Mr Worgan purchased…
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Australian Piano Makers of the Golden Era
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.923767537633380 “Gallery of Australian Piano Makers of the Golden Era”.Here you will find examples of some of the well known and not so well known excellent Australian Piano Makers of the Golden Era.Many of you will have heard of Beale and Wertheim Pianos but who made those lovely Belling and many of the nicer Victor…